Fabien Wernli wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:29:03AM +0100, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> 
>>Actually in this precise case this is a problem of
>>apt mis-interpreting RPM provides / requires.
> 
> 
> Another problem we identified is apt not liking packages requiring
> dependencies they provide - which IMHO is stupid anyway

this is usually auto-generated .. in not always smartest way ;-)

> This is for example the case of openldap-servers-2.2.13-4.i386.rpm
> which requires /usr/share/openldap/migration/migrate_common.ph , which is
> however in the RPM itself. rpm will happily install it, but apt will
> complain.

Yep. And there are few more:

Giving that apt for rpm is not developped anymore ..
since Mandrake took over Connectiva ...
(plus it does not understand multilib archs like ia64/x86_64
etc ..)

... it is not likely such things will be ever fixed.

We at CERN start thinking about migrating to yum for
next SLC version(s) (SLC 5 most likely)


Cheers

Jarek

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